This workshop is an introduction for artists and creative practitioners and those new to building websites, or a radical re-introduction to those with previous experience.

The workshop will begin with an examination of the web’s history, including early browsers and net.art to contemporary approaches to web design and creating online space.

The workshop will start with the basics of creating a website with HTML and CSS, and work with participants to construct their own online homes. Along the way we’ll cover semantic HTML, brutalist design, hosting, resilient and simple approaches to creating long-lasting spaces, and new protocols and online communities exploring web minimalism, permacomputing and the ‘slow web’ movement.

Bring a laptop.

Lee Tusman  is a New York-based new media artist and educator interested in the application of the radical ethos of collectives and DIY culture to the creation of, aesthetics, and open-source distribution methods of digital culture. He works in code, collage, sound  and text. His artistic output includes installations, interactive media, video art, experimental games, sound art, websites, bots and micro-power radio stations. His work has been shown at museums, galleries, artist-run spaces and virtual environments. He studied at Brandeis University and received his MFA at UCLA in Design Media Arts. He is Assistant Professor of New Media and Computer Science at Purchase College. Lee is an organizer with Babycastles, a NYC-based collective fostering and amplifying diverse voices in videogame culture as well as a collaborator with artist-run community Flux Factory. He co-founded Processing Community Day NYC. He is a past organizer at Hidden City Philadelphia, Little Berlin and KCHUNG Radio.

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